On Sunday 25 June 2006 11:58, Issac Goldstand wrote:
> >> "aaa<asd>='asd'/6>bbb<asd>='asd'/3>ccc<asd>='asd'/5>ddd###"
>> [snip]
>> > Using simple regexps to parse HTML (which seems similar to your problem)
> > is a very old Perl request, and often appears in #perl on Freenode.
>> It's not valid HTML. Look carefully at the "closing tag". So HTML
> parsers probably won't help. If it was, it'd be enough to cleanup the
> trailing ### (or whatever other EOL marker) and run it through
> HTML::Parser asking just for the body text.
I know it's not valid HTML. However, my point was that it was one case,
*similar* to (but not exactly the same as) parsing HTML where a simple
one-time regex would probably have been a relatively Evil thing to do.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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